21 Feb 2012
by Eden
in Analysis, Atyriia, characters, creative process, ethics, pleasure, quandries, Reading, stories, Valistii, writing, Writing samples
Tags: Alanii, analysis paralysis, Atyr, despair, dying, Emma Newman, Online Writing, relationships, sharing stories, Val, writing
Confession time:
Writers Posting Stories Online For Free Scare Me.
When someone posts their writing on the web, so many alarms go off in my head. I admit, I wonder about people who post their stories online without any expectation of recompense. Yet, here I am…. I have posted snippets of my “exercise” writing for the past month and a bit with little concern. Actually, I rather enjoy it.
As well, I’ve found a greater appreciation for many of the writers I’ve “met” online since posting my work. Some of the writing that people post on their blogs and websites ends up being the best writing I find. Some of it is … well, to put it politely… dreck. But usually I see enough to keep me content. And sometimes I see something that will inspire me to look up the longer works of an author.
I hesitate to say that is the goal of most posters of online writing is to get you, the reader, to go buy their books. I know it is for some people. It wasn’t my reason, and I know others who that wouldn’t fit either. Some share for the joy of sharing, for attention, for an outlet… More
15 Feb 2012
by Eden
in creative process, poetry, writing, Writing samples
Tags: #3ww, Flash fiction, little pieces, mix-up, Online Writing, poems, spur of the moment, Twitter
It’s Wednesday–well, actually it’s almost Thursday given the time, but I had some great stuff, a mix-up of sorts that has been hanging around here and I wanted to post of the great links I’ve discovered recently.
Let’s see, we have the hilarious, but also thought-provoking post Amy Beth Inverness posted on her Sci-Fi Q of the day: Why Go to the Moon?
Then there is this cool piece of flash fiction by DL Thurston for this week’s Terrible Mind’s prompt the Unlikable Protagonist.
This piece from Out Magazine is likely not for everyone, but I found it cool. I love learning about people… all people. And I really like learning about happy people.
Then I passed through a few blogs and Twitter pages I try to follow and found the oddest little hashtag–#3WW. Granted, I think a lot of Twitter hashtags are odd, but they do grown on one. And I suspect this one will too….
It’s Three Word Wednesday
The point is to make a piece of poetry that includes three words. This week’s the words are angelic, ruin and foster. Here is my attempt on short notice.
Forging
Hard walls hold,
brackish grey, ruinous mould
wrapped around the fragile center
shapes and cools
fires of non-angelic nature
fosters permanence
images of grotesques
and fools.
I’m not sure why… Actually I started this thinking about Cadbury Creme Eggs and then the Weeping Angels from Steve Moffat’s Blink episode of Doctor Who. Strange where the mind goes.
14 Feb 2012
by Eden
in Atyriia, creative process, Family, fiction, living, philosophies, pleasure, stories, Valistii, writing, Writing samples
Tags: Atyr, changes, Listii, Mara, relationships, Tea, writing
Last week I didn’t post my writing sample. I really wanted to, partly because I enjoy sharing my work with others (just as I enjoy it when they share their work with me and the world) and because I would like to begin making these blog posts more consistently.
Before getting to the story, let me point out a few more writers online I have met since starting this blogging adventure. I hope to highlight at least three of four new blogs in each post as a thank you for their gift of words:
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